Case studies

SKIDATA AG and LEGIC Identsystems Ltd jointly announce the market introduction of a SKIDATA Combi Card. The new contactless ‘keycard iso combi LEGIC advant' combines the SKIDATA access solutions with the wide choice of LEGIC advant all-in-one-card applications. It will increase services and convenience for guests and partners in tourist destinations. The new SKIDATA card offers two combined areas on the same chip. The SKIDATA area supports their access applicati...

Dedicated Micros, working together with Gardiner Security, has delivered an advanced CCTV solution to provide effective security for ITV Granada in Manchester, home to Coronation Street one of the UK's favorite soap operas. The project called for four of the latest NetVu Connected Digital Sprite 2 network capable DVRs featuring NetVu ObserVer software, four Dennard 2060 outdoor dome cameras which feature vandal resistant, environmentally protected enclosures - with more to follow shortly -...

Eight 12~240mm and four 10-140mm Pentax zoom lenses have been installed at one of Dublin's most advanced medical centres, as part of the security and general management system at Beaumont Hospital. The 620-bed facility occupies a 37-acre site with a diverse range of surveillance requirements that include access control, car parks, public safety and general asset management.Not only is Beaumont Hospital the principal undergraduate and post graduate medical training and research centre f...

Honeywell today announced that the WIN-PAKTM access control system has been installed at Tradition UK Ltd, a global leader in the brokering of financial and non-financial products, to ensure a high level of security and fast access for authorized personnel at their London offices. The implementation was managed by, NSI Gold installers West London Security.
Maintaining security has always been a high priority for Tradition, which operates several offices in London. Mark Heneke, Tradi...

Vista, Europe's premier brand of CCTV equipment, has had its eclipse camera and DVR selected for use in the making of "Inside a Perfect Bank Robbery", a Sky One television program. The documentary examines how individuals could pull off a daring and flawless heist, exploring the methods employed by raiders in the £53million Tonbridge theft.The show looks at all aspects of a bank robbery from how the criminals take on such a task to the terrible effect it has it on its victi...

When twenty-ton coils of cold metal steel are being processed, despite stringent quality control procedures, there is always the possibility of a fault occurring that could result in costly delays.The Corus Colors production lines convert the coils, which are each two kilometres long, into pre-finished steels for applications as diverse as roof and wall claddings to consumer products. To understand the reason for any fault and to ensure it does not reoccur, Corus Colors at Shotton, North W...

ACTi's Video Server, SED-2100R, and Transcoder, SED-3200, has enabled Bari Soccer stadium in Italy to incorporate IP based CCTV systems. Incorporating with EL.MO's DVR, Matrices and monitoring solutions, the new system allows centralized control and high integration of different CCTV systems. The use of wireless AP's also allows long distance transmission of video & control data, providing simple & cost effective solution over LAN environments. The CCTV system includes 2...

BackgroundThe James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, named after one of Teesside's most famous sons, is a major tertiary care centre providing leading edge acute hospital services. Part of South Tees Hospital NHS Trust, it opened as South Cleveland Hospital in 1980 and, in the last few years it has gone through a four-year PFI development to double in size to 145,000 sq m and house all of the Trust's specialties on the one Middlesborough site. The hospital now serves around 300,0...

The ChallengeThe Heartlands Hospital, a 900 bed acute teaching trust hospital in central Birmingham and Solihull Hospital, a 400 bed operation 12 miles further south both lost their existing CCTV coverage in December last year due to system failure.Solihull and Heartlands NHS Trust had been operating a combination of a PC-based digital recorder and a number of traditional analog multiplexers and VCRs. The system was becoming less reliable, so the decision was made to upgrade to a new...

Dome cameras, colour monitors and quad processors from Rainbow CCTV have been installed at a leading medical facility, the Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Florida.The CCTV installation includes the QPCF quad processor. These connect up to four cameras and one VCR, offering quad and switching video output. Users benefit from real-time, high-resolution images, independent full screen and auto sequential switching, video loss detection, and video adjustment for all channels.Health Cen...

Stafford General Hospital selected Axis Communications for the provision of network cameras and video servers in order to extend and update its surveillance system. The selection of a networked surveillance solution rather than a traditional analog-based Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) system saved the hospital more than £42,000 in installation costs alone. A total of five Axis video servers have been deployed to enable 14 existing analog cameras to be attached to the network. ...

Counters repetitive movements, small animals and ‘over-ranging' issues Continuing its drive to reduce and possibly eradicate false alarms even in the most demanding environments, Optex Europe - leaders in detection technology - has launched REDWAVE, a new external detector that combines several technologies in a single unit to provide the optimum installation performance.The product has been designed specifically to counter the three major headaches for installers-remote monitoring cen...